Not a lot of help to you now, but for the future... I use SilverKeeper, a free utility from LACIE. It can be scheduled to perform a task on computer startup, and I have it backup my Mail folder to a folder called Mail_current, which I keep on another partition for extra safety. The backup is incremental so the number of files saved each time is manageable. ---- John Woodrow email: <johnwoodrow at goldendustman.co.uk> web site: <http://www.goldendustman.co.uk>